So what I most enjoyed about going to university in the ’60s and ’70s was

the wonderful, informative sense of context, structure, themes, and organization about my personal specialized interests and, by extension, human behavior and the world.

I took the following contextual courses:

Intro to Greek and Roman Classics
Comparative Lit from Homer On
Canadian Lit (19th & 20th century)
20th Century Am Lit
19th & 20th Century British Lit
20th Century Poetry
Intro to Eng Lit
Can History
British History
Philosophy–basic and aesthetics.

This is an Arts grounding no longer possible at many universities. Deep/broad/inclusive-perspectived courses that today’s students can take no longer in the fashionable morass of technology, deconstructionist post-modernism, and MeToo. There is no longer any sense of significant general context and history (aside from the limited/limiting pc agenda courses) offered at most universities. Yeats’ “The centre cannot hold” is surely truer than ever before in post-secondary these non-book reading daze.

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